​Half Season 2019 - 4 concerts for only £35Discounted ticket entitling the holder to attend 4 concerts of their choice in 2019

Mozart's famous Eine Kleine Nachtmusik is followed by an evocative version of Boccherini's Nights in the Streets of Madrid written specially for the Cathedral Orchestra by Adam Webster. The local young soprano, Julia Smith, sings Berlioz's ravishingly romantic songs Summer Nights (Les Nuits d’Été) . Music by his contemporary, Mendelssohn, concludes the concert: excerpts from the pieces he wrote for Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream. This is an concert full of the romance of a summer's evening.

There is more romantic music on October 12, notably Bruch's Violin Concerto.

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8 June 2019 On this Shining Night

This wide-ranging concert contrasts some wonderful choral music with several of the most famous pieces for strings, such as the famous Canon by Pachelbel. ​The vocal music includes Duo Seraphim for two choirs by Gallus; the Merseyside premiere of the last completed piece by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, The Golden Solstice; Avo Pärt’s Bogoroditze Dyevo (Hail, Mary) - and his violin version of Spiegel im Spiegel (Mirror in the mirror) - and two exquisite pieces by Morten Lauridsen. This is a concert not to be missed.

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6 July 2019 The Lark Ascending

ProgrammeM Berkeley Romance of the RoseDelius On Hearing the First CuckooTrad. English arr. Claire The Cuckoo Trad. Irish arr. Claire My Lagan Love Trad. English arr. Stubbs The Sprig of Thyme 1st PerfDelius Summer Night on the RiverBurgoyne On A strange Shore Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending Moseley Death and the Maiden Vaughan Williams Benedicite

The Lark Ascending is one of the most popular pieces in English music. It shares the concert with Benedicite, another richly expressive work by Vaughan Williams, and lyrical orchestral miniatures by Delius. There are folk-song settings, including a new one by Mike Stubbs and two extended items by local composers: Hilary Burgoyne’s wonderful On a Strange Shore, with Mary Bowell on ‘cello, and the haunting Death and the Maiden by John Moseley. Beth Hartless is the soloist in this while Patricia Heyes, so well-known to Merseside audiences, is the solo soprano in Benedicite.

​For those who love the violin, Bruch’s Violin Concerto is being played, again by Leo Byrne, on October 12.